The Senate voted on Monday evening to confirm the nomination of Derek Kan to be Undersecretary for Policy at the Department of Transportation. Kan was confirmed on a vote of 90-7.

In related news, the Senate also voted 50-47 on Monday to end debate on the nomination of Steven Bradbury to be General Counsel at DOT, setting up a final confirmation vote later this week. A number of Democrats are opposed to Bradbury because he authored the so-called "torture memo" when he was at the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush.